Senior Manager, People Operations Strategic Initiatives
Company: GE Aerospace
Location: Remote (Remote)
Salary: $158,000 - $215,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-06-04
About this role
# Job Description Summary
The Senior Manager, People Operations Strategic Initiatives is a senior individual contributor within the Strategy & Enablement function, responsible for leading highly complex and often confidential strategic initiatives across People Operations. This role requires extensive HR functional expertise with deep domain knowledge in mergers and acquisitions and AI-enabled HR transformation. Operating with a high degree of autonomy and judgment, this individual serves as the People Operations strategic lead on deals and other high-priority initiatives that have direct financial and operational impact on the organization — bringing the ability to move from strategy to execution while ensuring People Operations is positioned to deliver against its most consequential commitments.
# Job Description
Essential Job Functions
Strategic Initiatives
- Lead the identification, scoping, and design of high-priority initiatives across People Operations that require specialized expertise, cross-functional coordination, and senior-level judgment.
- Develop and present business cases, ROI models, and investment frameworks that inform prioritization and resource decisions across the People Operations portfolio, drawing on emerging business and industry trends to identify strategic opportunities.
- Accountable for defining success metrics, establishing measurement approaches, and tracking value realization for strategic initiatives from inception through delivery.
- Deliver executive-level updates on initiative strategy, progress, and outcomes to senior HR and business leadership, influencing decision-making and driving alignment.
People Operations M&A
- Serve as the People Operations strategic M&A lead across the full deal lifecycle — from pre-deal due diligence through integration or separation execution — operating under NDA and engaging directly with senior deal stakeholders.
- Partner with HR M&A, Client HR, Corporate Development, a...